Posted on 05/19/2026 2:30:44 PM PDT by ebb tide
A boy was denied the Sacrament of Confirmation at an “inclusive” church for calling an LGBT event “nonsense.”
According to Bishop Robert Mutsaerts, the auxiliary bishop of the Dutch diocese ’s-Hertogenbosch, a Catholic boy was asked to withdraw from the preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation because he said that Purple Friday (a pro-LGBT event in the Netherlands) was “nonsense.”
On Bishop Mutsaerts’ blog, he described an incident that occurred at a pro-LGBT parish where he visited to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation to young Catholics.
The Dutch bishop recalled that he “confirmed him elsewhere a week later.”
“A boy with an opinion and character. Apparently, that doesn’t fit in this tolerant, non-exclusionary, inclusive, broad, open, accessible, hospitable, generous, welcoming, open-minded, understanding, and accepting parish,” he stated.
In front of the parish, an LGBT rainbow flag was flying.
“It is one of those parishes that calls itself inclusive, as became clear after Mass at the coffee table. ‘We are an LGBTQ church, a Rainbow Church,'” Mutsaerts recalled the parish leaders saying.
However, the bishop said that they were not particularly “inclusive” when upholding orthodox Catholic teaching on sexuality. When he tried to address these issues after Mass, “I was immediately canceled because my starting point does not align with their Rainbow Religion. Inclusion turns out not to be an open door but a carefully guarded gateway.”
Mutsaerts recently suffered serious injuries after a car accident. His Excellency suffered a broken elbow, pelvis, and a dislocated hip but was quickly released from intensive care. The bishop has since left the hospital and is recovering at home, according to his diocese.
In recent years, Bishop Mutsaerts has been one of the few bishops to consistently defend Church teaching and denounce modern errors, especially the promotion of the LGBT agenda. In a 2024 article for LifeSiteNews, the prelate called Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans a “cowardly” document that is an attempted “deliberate modification” of what is sinful.
In October 2025, during the Catholic Identity Conference, he joined Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Bishop Marian Eleganti, and Bishop Joseph Strickland in leading millions of faithful, in person and virtually, in making an act of reparation for the Vatican-approved “LGBT pilgrimage” a month earlier. During that pilgrimage, a group led by a rainbow cross, including many people with their homosexual “partners,” dressed in rainbow colors and with some waving “LGBT pride” flags, processed through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, some wearing clothing and backpacks with explicit messages.
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But there's no emergency. Right, Captain?
An enormous grooming operation.
Those fag-flags on the building are a disgusting heresy.
And there it is. It only took two popes to completely destroy the Catholic Church. I have no doubt Pope Marx II will declare abortion is “the most sacred” part of being a Catholic (a la Nancy Pelosi)
And there it is. It only took two popes to completely destroy the Catholic Church. I have no doubt Pope Marx II will declare abortion is “the most sacred” part of being a Catholic (a la Nancy Pelosi)
Catholic Identity Conference,
An abuse of the Sacrament of Confirmation? Treading close to sacrilege against the Holy Spirit.
There's certainly nothing to justify the heretical SSPX position that they know better than the Church, ebb.
Your comment is heretical.
The Catholic Church is hardly destroyed. It has endured much worse Popes than Francis and Leo, and has buried all those in the past who pronounced it's end, and will still be here after they have have died and turned to dust. If that wasn't so, Christ was a liar when he said the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church.
I have no doubt Pope Marx II will declare abortion is “the most sacred” part of being a Catholic (a la Nancy Pelosi)
Pope Leo (as was even Francis) is staunchly pro-life ad opposed to abortion. The trouble is he equates that with immigration and social justice issues, which goes back to the old "seamless garment" error of the last century which has been entirely debunked.
This article has nothing to do with the SSPX, so get off your one-trick pony.
You just won’t admit the obvious.
When Christ said that the gates of hell would not prevail against His church he was talking about His TRUE church not the RCC heresy ..
Big time.
That’s the sad truth.
That’s the sad truth.
Then why call my attention to the article, with your reference to a state of emergency?
(If it has nothing to do with the SSPX?)
Because you have repeatedly claimed there is no crisis/emergency in today’s synodal “church”.
Do you stand by those past claims of yours?
Yes or No?
I have never used the word, "emergency". (Go ahead and find it if you think I have.)
That the Church is in a crisis is obvious; however, the history of the Church is replete with crises. This one, like every one of the crises that preceded it, doesn't require any disobedience on anyone's part.
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